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Small basket for fruit
Answer for the clue "Small basket for fruit ", 6 letters:
punnet
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small light basket used as a measure for fruits
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK Australia New Zealand English) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punnet \Pun"net\, n. [Cf. Ir. buinne a shoot, branch.] A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, round chip basket," 1822, chiefly British, of obscure origin.
Usage examples of punnet.
Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.
Chuck complained, shaking his head as the girl turned into an elderly basket-seller and tried to thrust a straw punnet into his hands.
They bring you the news and a punnet of pomegranates - then half kill your slaves, demolish your garden, and batter any visitors?
Her hat, which was flowery, resembled those punnets, covered with flannel, which we sowed with mustard and cress in our childhood, and which germinated here yes, and there no.
Already the porters were unloading their stout sacks, huge crates, round baskets, frail punnets and long flat boxes filled with living scent and colour, sweating and grumbling over their labours as though their exquisite burdens were so much fish or pig-iron.
Her hat, which was flowery, resembled those punnets, covered with flannel, which we sowed with mustard and cress in our childhood, and which germinated here yes, and there no.
As they walked, under a midterm daytime moon, like a mask flattened at the brow and sharpened at the chin, like a shield raised against arrows, Richard was remembering, how, in the Canal Creperie, between Rattlesnakes, he had reached for his food punnet and felt the lateness of the hour when the nacho clung to its sauce like a stirring-stick left too long in the paint, and the young man had said, "It's a sham, it's a sham.